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handles the executive functions for the company, as well as doing the stone work. His wife is also a teacher and he has three children, Paola, Carla and Jorge.

Leobardo’s father has built stucco homes in Mexico, for which rocks were the foundation. In Virginia, the crew was building stone walls on Route 647 and when they were spotted by Mr. Pumphrey, who stopped and hired them for the wall behind his houses on Main Street, along the Thornton River. When I wrote about the crew last year, Jenny Fitzhugh, an admirer of that Sperryville wall, immediately contacted Reyes Stoneworks. This crew of modest men probably doesn’t think of themselves as artistic. However, their intuitive creative talent, hard work and dependability have built their reputation as a skilled, honest and competent crew with contractor Alan Clark and the homeowners that we met. Virginia is lucky to have this crew of men using stones to set down new roots in our area. Their

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